{"id":8099,"date":"2020-07-10T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:17:56","slug":"pathophysiology-transmission-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/10\/pathophysiology-transmission-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathophysiology, Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A review article summarizes the current state of knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">highlights gaps in knowledge about\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">transmission, infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and treatment<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dexamethasone shows promise in reducing 28-day mortality, while convalescent plasma\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">has not yet been\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">show<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to not shorten time to recovery. At least 120 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are under development. Until\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an effective vaccine is developed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, face masks, physical\u00a0distancing, and contact tracing remain the primary methods to reduce spread.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wiersinga\u00a0et al. (July 10, 2020). Pathophysiology, Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). JAMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.12839\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.12839<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review article summarizes the current state of knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19\u00a0and\u00a0highlights gaps in knowledge about\u00a0transmission, infection,\u00a0and treatment.\u00a0Dexamethasone shows promise in reducing 28-day mortality, while convalescent plasma\u00a0has not yet been\u00a0shown\u00a0to not shorten time to recovery. At least 120 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are under development. Until\u00a0an effective vaccine is developed, face masks, physical\u00a0distancing, and contact tracing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/10\/pathophysiology-transmission-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8100,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/8100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}